Here's a massive compilation of (most of) the videos we have produced in the first 5 months of our projection animation theatre project. This includes several different visual tests and also the first rough edit of the two poems we will be performing (The first time you have seen anything of the stories here on the blog!).
We hope you enjoy seeing our imperfections, mistakes and laughs, and hearing our hilariously bad American accent placeholder voices - there'll be many more to come before we nail it!
Remember to click that lovely little HD button to see the whole video in high definition.
Tests include:
Watering can
Rabbit in the headlights
One eighty degree burn
Millers' door
Floating hands
Rebel shadows
Animatics include:
Millers' End
The Catipoce!
Sunday, 19 December 2010
One Sheet/Poster
Here is the design for our 'teaser' poster, or One Sheet as it is called in the animation business. For the one we have displayed in the animation department, we printed the photograph of ourselves on a transparent sheet and mounted it a few millimetres above the background screen image (almost as if to imply some kind of CRAZY "three-dimensional" effect!!).
Please feel free to print one of these images, in A2, and stick it on your bedroom wall, or turn it into a flag, or even a place mat for your dinner table. It has got soup on it already, so a bit more wouldn't hurt.
Please feel free to print one of these images, in A2, and stick it on your bedroom wall, or turn it into a flag, or even a place mat for your dinner table. It has got soup on it already, so a bit more wouldn't hurt.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Friday, 10 December 2010
Tripods.
Okay, so I spent about 2 hours yesterday researching tripods.
It was SO EXCITING!!!
I originally wanted to find out if there is a tripod head which can securely hold a projector. If it's anything less than completely secure, Livvy's dad might worry about the safety of his projector...
Well, no one really makes projector-specific ones, but there are a few which are designed for laptops, and VCRs(?), apparently. This would be ideal for quick setups and touring where no ceiling mount is available.
Then I uncovered what seems like a secret cult of photographers who love their laptops so much that they can't resist having both a laptop and a camera on one tripod. Most of these systems are some kind of horizontal bar which fits to the tripod head...
The combined weight of a bar like this, the projector and my SLR would be about 6KG. This is actually quite a lot, which I never realised back in German lessons in year 8 when in my ignorance I ordered 20KG of apples in an oral exam.
So it goes without saying that a good tripod would be needed to support a system like this.
Researching my own tripod that I have used since the days of animating plasticine blobs - the one you can see in some of our production images - I have uncovered that not only is it a study tripod capable of supporting such weight, but also that it is over 30 years old! Wow. Apparently, that's a good thing. There's hardly any parts that aren't made of solid gunmetal.
Maybe I should add some tripod accessories to my Christmas list!
It was SO EXCITING!!!
I originally wanted to find out if there is a tripod head which can securely hold a projector. If it's anything less than completely secure, Livvy's dad might worry about the safety of his projector...
Well, no one really makes projector-specific ones, but there are a few which are designed for laptops, and VCRs(?), apparently. This would be ideal for quick setups and touring where no ceiling mount is available.
Then I uncovered what seems like a secret cult of photographers who love their laptops so much that they can't resist having both a laptop and a camera on one tripod. Most of these systems are some kind of horizontal bar which fits to the tripod head...
The combined weight of a bar like this, the projector and my SLR would be about 6KG. This is actually quite a lot, which I never realised back in German lessons in year 8 when in my ignorance I ordered 20KG of apples in an oral exam.
So it goes without saying that a good tripod would be needed to support a system like this.
Researching my own tripod that I have used since the days of animating plasticine blobs - the one you can see in some of our production images - I have uncovered that not only is it a study tripod capable of supporting such weight, but also that it is over 30 years old! Wow. Apparently, that's a good thing. There's hardly any parts that aren't made of solid gunmetal.
Maybe I should add some tripod accessories to my Christmas list!
Friday, 3 December 2010
Turnaround.
Turnarounddddd, every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming round..
Sorry nothing has been posted for a while, we are knee deep in script writing/animatics.
Wait. What was I posting again?
Oh yeah. I made some turnarounds for Millers end, Billy and Mrs Wickerby.
Sorry nothing has been posted for a while, we are knee deep in script writing/animatics. More things to come soon, promise! : >
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